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28 novembre 2011

What Not To Wear

Before coming to Mayotte, I’d looked them up in books and on websites, talked to people about them, looked into what was available locally. I’d looked into the materials that went into making them and how said materials would stand the test of time, humidity,...

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Tags: mayotte, clothes, dress, salouva, t-shirt, shop, advertising, british telecom, december, jeans, summer, tesco

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26 novembre 2011

T.P. Folk

Yesterday, my music group and I were invited to play in a local brochetti. Brochettis are small restaurants, often in car-parks or in the middle of nowhere, all corrugated iron and plastic chairs, but they cook locally-grown/fished/caught food on a barbecue,...

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Tags: breadfruit, food, fish, music, road, barbecue, brochetti, colas, construction, mama brochetti

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21 novembre 2011

It's raining, it's pouring...

View from the flat. The rainy season started in the middle of last week. Tropical rain is quite interesting. It goes by short blasts of heavy rain followed by great lengths of nothing. But in the wet season, it rains at least a little every day. These...

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Tags: mayotte, rain, april, change, climate, holes, mum, november, puddle, road, season, wet

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19 novembre 2011

The Motorbike Saga Begins

First motorbike lesson today, called an evaluation lesson. First, the monitor sat two of us down and talked us through why we wanted to drive a motorbike, what were the pros and cons, what protective material we needed and what the exam was like. I now...

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Tags: school, lesson, motorbike, rain, driving school, gloves, helmet, jacket, leather, trousers

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16 novembre 2011

The English girl and the Motorbike

I wonder if Papi remembers teaching me to drive... 31.10.2011 The driving-school instructor who taught me how to ride a scooter had asked me for English lessons, so I gave him his first lesson this evening. In return, instead of payment, he is going to...

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Tags: english, motorbike, lessons, code, driving school, mistakes, prefecture, rousseau, saturday, theory, time

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13 novembre 2011

Feet, bikes, cats and cars.

This morning, the temperature was 29°C in the shade, 47°C in the sun. At 8.25 a.m. At the moment, even the cat is flat out on the cool floor tiles. This is the cool season. It doesn't actually bother me when I'm busy doing nothing, but does get in my...

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Tags: temperature, cat, degrees, mango, poquette, rain, sun, terrace, tiles

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8 novembre 2011

Good morning all.

A quick hello from underwater, when I went diving with a colleague's husband !

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Tags: water, diving, mask, oxygen, underwater, bottle

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7 novembre 2011

Photo albums

Underwater photo of anemones and little fish, taken by a colleague's daughter with an underwater camera. I've just added a photo album to the blog, called "Blue Lagoon". It shows photos of the lagoon, above and under the water, some corals and fish, sandy...

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Tags: lagoon, newspaper, strike, coral, fish, beach, sand, album, photo, underwater, bag, bin, dark, people, rubbish, town

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6 novembre 2011

Music in Mayotte

This is the music group I’ve been with for a month so far. The level isn’t brilliant, but we get on well and are happy playing together. The group is called L'Amicale des Bretons de Mayotte. Marion plays the flute, the accordion and the piano. She started...

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Tags: mayotte, school, accordion, acdc, brassens, bretons, flute, francoise, guitar, lessons, marion, martine, maxime, music, recorder

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